He had yielded, perhaps more than half contemptuously, to what he thought a feminine weakness.

In going with her to the registrar's office he would feel himself to be acting an ignoble part.

Was it not a bad beginning to rule him against his conscience?
She had triumphed splendidly.

In the world's eye this marriage of hers was far better than any she could reasonably have hoped, and her heart approved it with rapture.

At a stage in life when she had sternly reconciled herself never to know a man's love, this love had sought her with passionate persistency of which even a beautiful young girl might feel proud.